Yahoo reports that American Pie 2, the movie that has not even been officially released in the States, can be found on the file-sharing network Hot Line. The file is encoded in DivX ;-), so get it while you can !
American Pie 2 is scheduled to make its global debut August 10 in the United States, but Reuters has learned that digital versions of the movie are being exchanged between Internet users' computer hard drives. |
Universal, a division of Vivendi Universal, was not immediately available for comment.
The movie, which has been compressed into a format called DivX, has been trafficked through a popular so-called peer-to- peer file exchange service Hotline, the main product of Toronto-based Hotline Communications Ltd.
This technology was developed to transfer large data files, but people who download it have used it to share pirated materials.
The trafficking of pirated movies has grown on the Internet, helped by a file-sharing craze that was sparked by free song-swapping site Napster (news - web sites).
Source: Yahoo.com
